Biography Languages: German, including its historical varieties (Old, Middle, and Early New High German and Old Saxon); Old English; Gothic Research/Language Interests: (Socio-)historical linguistics, syntactic and morphosyntactic change, orality and literacy in early medieval Europe, Carolingian documentary culture, biblical translation, and language epistemologies. About Me: Katerina Somers returned to the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2018. Her …
Biography Languages: German, French, Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic Research/Language Interests: Continental Philosophy, Jewish Thought, Race and Religion, Secularism, Political Theology, Translation Theory, Media Studies About: Adam Stern arrived at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2019. His first book, Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy, was published with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2021. Recent articles have appeared in journals …
Biography Language: German, Ukrainian, Polish Research/Language Interests: Twentieth to twenty-first century Ukrainian and German literature; city literature from the 19th to 21st century; theories of transculturality, transnationality, and cultural belonging; literature and politics; medical humanities; women’s writing in Central and Eastern Europe; feminist theory. About: After completing her BA and MA in Lviv, Ukraine, Oksana …
Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor is Professor of Dutch and German in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+.
Biography Language: Yiddish, Hebrew, English Research/Language Interests: Yiddish and Hebrew literature; Jewish American literature and culture; medical humanities; multilingual modernisms, visual culture. About: Sunny Yudkoff joined the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of German, Nordic, & Slavic+ Studies in the fall of 2016. Her first book, Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of …